The Weather almanack, by O. Whistlecraft. [1st]-8th year

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1857
 

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Page 37 - Company's charter, not being sweetened or mixed with any article, so that the degree of strength thereof cannot be exactly ascertained by such hydrometer, 9s.
Page 51 - For any such carriage kept and used solely • for the purpose of being let for hire, one-half of the above-mentioned duties respectively.
Page 37 - Customs, such Sugar having been there first inspected by the Officers of Customs in Lumps or Loaves, as if for immediate Shipment, and then packed for Exportation in the Presence of such Officers, and at the Expense of the Exporters, for every cwt. 017 2 Upon Refined Sugar unstoved, pounded, crushed or broken, and not in any way inferior to the Export Standard Sample, No.
Page 37 - Hydrometer ; for every gallon of the strength of proof by such hydrometer, and so in proportion for any greater or less strength than the strength of proof, and for any greater or less quantity than a gallon...
Page 5 - Indications of approaching changes of weather and the direction and force of winds are shown less by the height of the barometer than by its falling or rising. Nevertheless, a height of more than...
Page 50 - Strip the body, and rub it dry ; then wrap it in hot blankets, and place it in a warm bed in a warm chamber.
Page 33 - Act, for the purpose of raising by voluntary subscriptions of the members thereof, with or without the aid of donations, a fund for any of the following objects, that is to say: 1.
Page 37 - Yellow muscovado and brown clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal in quality to yellow muscovado or brown clayed and not equal to white clayed . . cwt.
Page 5 - ... 3. The strength or force alone of wind, from any quarter (moisture and direction being unchanged), is preceded or foretold by a fall or rise, according as the strength will be greater or less, ranging in an extreme case to more than two inches.

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